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The city's Leslie Park Golf Course keeps winning national acclaim.
by Louis Meldman
From the October, 2018 issue
In 2009, Golf Digest began a search for the best municipal golf course in each of the fifty states. It picked Leslie Park as the best in Michigan. In 2015 it was ranked in the top twenty of all municipal courses in America by Gear Patrol magazine--along with such famous spots as Torrey Pines in California and Bethpage Black in New York, both of which have hosted United States Open championships.
Municipal courses are typically the poor relations of private clubs like Barton Hills and "public" ones like Stonebridge that are privately owned but allow anyone to play. Leslie Park is one of the rare exceptions. Designed by E. Lawrence Packard, it opened in 1967 and was renovated in 1995 by the internationally renowned golf architect Arthur Hills; Hills elegantly refined Leslie's greens, tees, and bunkers and added a pond in front of the eighth green.
In the mid-2000s, the city set up a golf course task force to look at ways to reduce financial losses at Leslie and the city's other course, Huron Hills. A proposal to shrink Huron Hills to nine holes was rejected, but that wasn't even considered at Leslie; instead, the city improved it to attract more players.
In 2007 it hired a new golf-course superintendent, Scott Spooner, and a new director of golf, Doug Kelly; both had managed upscale public and private courses around the world. Traver Creek, which runs through the course, was widened, and lush vegetation was planted, including glorious yellow and purple wildflowers to filter sediment and nutrients and decrease bank erosion. Today, the water that flows out of Leslie Park is cleaner than what flows in. And "we built turtle nesting boxes, above-ground duck nesting pads, bat houses," says Kelly. "Everything we could do for local fauna."
Mark Twain said that golf is a good walk spoiled, but Leslie Park is expansive and graceful. The gigantic hardwoods and mature Austrian pines are stunning, and the course rises
and falls dramatically. The par-five fourth hole is just over 500 yards long, but the last 125 are nearly straight uphill. Going downhill is just as sensational, as when curving down and around and through the woods on number nine. A dozen years ago a number of stately ash trees fell to the dreaded ash borer, but there has been judicious and creative replanting.
The same team runs Huron Hills. The flat front nine holes there are geared to beginners, kids, seniors, and families. The hilly back nine is as wonderful as any nine in southeast Michigan.
Huron Hills has won awards, too: its vertiginous eighteenth hole is perennially named "best sledding hill" in Ann Arbor.
[Originally published in October, 2018.]


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Apple Michigan Avenue
Apple Michigan Avenue reconnects Chicago to its river.
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Inspired by the pulse of Chicago's artistic energy, Apple has created a new platform for performance in a city charged by music. Located at the intersection of the Chicago River and North Michigan Avenue's 'Magnificent Mile', Apple Michigan Avenue cascades down from Pioneer Court to the river's edge, creating new connections between the city and the river.
The project reflects Apple's commitment to the cities and communities it inhabits, and is the result of a close collaboration between the design team at Apple led by chief design officer, Sir Jonathan Ive and Angela Ahrendts, senior vice president of Retail and Online Stores and Foster + Partners.
Sir Jonathan Ive said, "Apple Michigan Avenue is about removing boundaries between inside and outside, reviving important urban connections within the city. It unites a historic city plaza that had been cut off from the water, giving Chicago a dynamic new arena that flows effortlessly down to the river."
Pioneer Court is an urban plaza steeped in Chicago history. It is the spot where Point de Sable – the founding father of Chicago – first lived and worked. Apple Michigan Avenue sits atop a wide new public stair, created to lead down from the plaza to the river. The gentle descent of levels creates active spaces where people can connect, create, and experience the city and river together.
The stairway transitions seamlessly between the outside and inside. It passes through the building's walls – dematerialized to pure glass – and connects to the store's buzzing center, sheltered by an impossibly thin carbon fiber roof, supported on slender stainless-steel columns. As the interior steps down to the river, it acts as a seating space around the Forum – the hub of Today at Apple and a live source of creativity, education and entertainment.
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The loss to Selangor in the Malaysia Cup in Round 3 of the group stage was the first for Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT) since their exit from the 2017 AFC Cup back in May. In a twist of fate, both defeats had a similar outlook about it.
A poor first half that followed by an improved second half performance. To cap it off, the concession of the last minute penalty to the opposition would bring back harsh memories for the players and fans.
Concentration towards the end of matches has been a problem for the Southern Tigers, and it is something which has crossed over from Benjamin Mora's time to Ulisses Morais. Apart from the aforementioned Ceres-Negros match, JDT has also conceded late against Melaka United, other than this Selangor match.
Amirulhadi Zainal returned from his suspension at the weekend to start this match and he was paired alongside Afiq Fazail and Nazmi Faiz. The trio were finding it hard to cope with the Selangor midfield in the first half but with better outlets available when Gabriel Guerra and Gonzalo Cabrera were introduced after the break, they looked a different team in the second half.
"We cannot put the blame on anyone for the defeat. We play as a team so we have to accept this. We committed mistakes and that gave the opponent the chance. Although we tried to come back, we just need to concentrate more game by game," said Amirulhadi to Goal after the match.
Nazmi, one of many players who were selected by Morais as the Portuguese chop and changed his team from the one that beat Sarawak last Satuday. However, the experiment did not work out quite as well one he would have hoped.
Amirulhadi admitted that it is hard to player to get into top form when they hardly get any playing time and the lack of understanding as well as rustiness comes into effect during matches. However, the 31-year-old midfielder is keen to point out that the selection does not mean that the Malaysia Cup is less of a priority for the team.
"There are some players who doesn't get to play a lot of games. A little bit, there's an effect on our performance. For us, the Malaysia Cup is also important. It's not that we just focus on the Super League. We don't take the competition lightly," he added.
Amirulhadi and his team mate traveled back to Johor Bahru immediately after the match at Selayang Stadium where they would prepare, before another away trip awaits them, this time to T-Team on Saturday.


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If you didn't watch the Golden Globes after an afternoon of Sunday Night Football, I don't blame you. But by opting out of one of the biggest awards shows in entertainment—the only one that celebrates both movies and television—you missed some choice grooming lessons.
The men of Hollywood always play second fiddle to the ladies, but they never disappoint when it comes to next-level grooming. Last night was a parade of smooth jaws, tall hair, slick lineups and fewer beards, but more scruff. Here's what you can learn about grooming from Hollywood's coolest men.
Idris Elba, the world's favourite possible-Bond, has become known for his age-appropriate salt-and-pepper hair, but typically wears his hair and beard slightly longer than he did last night. He knows that when it's this short, trimming one means you need to trim the other. His close-cropped beard is almost as short as the hair on top of his head, but still tapers to the ears and back up. That all-important taper keeps hair even this short from looking like a wreath around his face.
Richard Madden ended up winning his first Golden Globe for his role in Bodyguard, where he plays a close-shaven army vet. Last night he looked shaggier, but no less dapper. What really stood out was his natural grey hair, front and centre. More men than ever were showing off their grey hair last night—maybe in honour of one of the night's big honourees, Jeff Bridges—but no one did it with as much aplomb as Madden. His hair is light enough that it would have been easy to colour, but he didn't, and for that we applaud him.
Kingsmen and Robin Hood star Taron Egerton was the latest convert to one of the year's biggest hair trends: the winter buzz cut. Cutting off your hair may be something you've done in the summer, but more and more guys are opting for the look year-round. The key is—like here with Egerton—a slightly longer length. No matter what the season, a slightly longer crop is low maintenance and high impact. Just don't forget to wear a hat.
We'll just say this about Bradley Cooper: The man cleans up good. The actor and director of A Star is Born might have been doing the method thing, but it's been a long time since we've seen him as clean-shaven as this. He looks great with a beard, but as more and more men go bearded on the red carpet, Cooper threw a curveball and showed up with nary a hair on his face.
While fewer guys were rocking beards last night, Justin Hartley of This Is Us made a strong case for scruff. His perfectly-trimmed short scruff helps to accentuate his jawline and plays off his piece-y hair for a more younger look that doesn't seem out of place at a formal event. The fact that it was so well-trimmed and short kept it from looking too messy.


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Rakuten TV becomes an Official Partner of The 61st BFI London Film Festival
Posted on October 10, 2017 by Josh
VOD platform Rakuten TV announced on Friday that they have concluded a deal to become an Official Partner of The 61st BFI London Film Festival, alongside American Express®.
The British film festival began on October 4th and runs until October 15th with the partnership following Rakuten TV's strategy to become a key player in the UK film industry, bringing the best of cinema to your home via its Video on Demand service.
At the festival, Rakuten TV will present the World Premiere and Archive Gala of Shiraz: A Romance in India, a notable historical romance.
Clare Stewart, Festival Director, BFI London Film Festival, says "The BFI London Film Festival is pleased to welcome a new partner on board for this year's edition and delighted that the Archive Gala will be presented in partnership with Rakuten TV. We are thrilled that Shiraz will reach wider audiences through Rakuten TV and allow more film lovers to discover this film treasure."
Simon Homent, European Content Director Rakuten TV says "We are thrilled to have secured a partnership with the UK's largest film event – The 61st BFI London Film Festival. As well as being an amazing platform to raise awareness of our Rakuten TV brand, the deal means bringing our aim of greater synergy between cinema and VOD to the fore. Our users love watching movies on their Smart TVs. This is why we want to increase our collaboration with the film industry – being on the UK's most important red carpet is definitely coherent with this strategy".
Rakuten TV's October film slate includes the latest and best releases such as the critically acclaimed Baby Driver, Transformers: The Last Knight, My Cousin Rachel, Tom Cruise's The Mummy and Despicable Me 3.
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The SEC has said it is considering raising the shareholder limit for private companies in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa obtained by the WSJ.
The SEC has a rule that says that once a private company reaches 500 individual shareholders, it has to report publicly the way a public company does, so this rule is an incentive for companies to go public: if they're going to have the drawbacks of being public (disclosure) they might as well have the advantages (access to public markets).
The 500 shareholder rule is thought to have been a big reason why Google decided to go public in 2004 after delaying for a while. It's thought a big reason why Facebook decided to do its last round of funding from a "special purpose vehicle" built by Goldman Sachs with money from tons of their rich private clients was to get around that SEC rule.
So if the SEC changes the rule it might be a further disincentive for tech companies to go public. Tech companies like Facebook and Zynga are deciding to stay private ever longer, getting funding and liquidity through late stage funding rounds and private markets.
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Take a ride on the Lakeside Miniature Railway which runs from Ocean Plaza to Kings Gardens in the seaside town of Southport.
The Lakeside Miniature Railway has been running continiously for 95 years, and is the oldest continually running 15"Gauge (38.1cm) railway in the world.
The Lakeside Miniature Railway line was extended to Marine Parade Station in 1948 which now serves the new Ocean Plaza Development. With 5 Locomotives, the Railway line is 800 Yards (731.5metres).


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Facing elimination, Hawks blank South Dakota 1-0 for berth in Summit League tournament
After missing tournament last season, UND will face Omaha in first round
UND soccer coach Chris Logan celebrates with his players after the Hawks downed South Dakota 1-0 on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, to clinch a berth in the upcoming Summit League tournament.
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By Wayne Nelson
GRAND FORKS — Last season, the UND women's soccer team finished 3-13-1, winning one conference game and missing the Summit League postseason tournament
The Hawks returned a good chunk from last season's team. And they remain young But they're improving — evidenced by their 1-0 win over South Dakota on Sunday at Bronson Field. The win qualified UND for the coming league tournament.
It was win-and-in for UND, which was three points behind South Dakota for the sixth-and-final seed for the Hawks coming into the game. Had the game ended in a tie, South Dakota would have qualified.
UND will take on Omaha in a first-round game Friday in Brookings. The winner will move on to meet league champion and undefeated South Dakota State on Sunday.
"We started a process last year that we stuck to and the results are starting to come around as we thought," said UND coach Chris Logan. "We still have 19-20 freshmen and sophomores so we're still super young."
UND will head to Brookings with a 3-4-2 Summit record and a 7-8-4 overall mark.
UND freshman Amelia Loeffler scored the loan goal, that coming on a header at the 60 minute mark. Julia Briggs picked up the assist.
After the goal, UND knew the pressure from South Dakota would intensify. And it did, especially in the final minutes. South Dakota finished with 14 shots on goal, 12 coming in the second half.
UND goalie Madi Livingston came up with a season-saving stop with 20 seconds to go, leaping to stop a close range shot from right out front.
"The shot was a little nerve-wracking," said the senior, who finished with five saves.
Livingston is one of five seniors on the UND roster.
After last season, she said the Hawks set their sights on rejoining the league playoffs.
"This was our ultimate goal, to make the tournament," said Livingston, who is from Centennial, Colo. "It was scary it had to come down to the last game to make it. But we made it."
Logan said Livingston's play throughout the season has been solid.
"She makes a penalty kick save in the last two minutes at Kansas City, earning us a point," said Logan, referring to the 1-1 tie. "I'm biased but I think she's the best goal keeper in the conference."
UND and Omaha played to a 0-0 tie on Sept. 23 in Omaha.
"It was a good game there," said Logan. "I thought on that day, they were a little better than us. But we can play great as well. So hopefully, we give a more complete performance. And we're healthier now. So we're excited to see what happens."
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He is a UND graduate and has been writing sports since the late 1970s.
Follow him on Twitter @waynenelsongf. You can reach him at (701) 780-1268 or wnelson@gfherald.com.
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Les Nouvelles Aventures de Flash Gordon (Flash Gordon) est une série télévisée d'animation américaine en seize épisodes de 25 minutes et seize épisodes de 12 minutes, créée d'après la bande dessinée d'Alex Raymond et diffusée entre le  et le  sur le réseau NBC. Un téléfilm intitulé La Plus Grande Aventure de Flash Gordon () a été diffusé le  juste avant la seconde saison.

En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du  sur Antenne 2. Cette diffusion a commencé avec le téléfilm introduisant les aventures du personnage sur Mongo.

Synopsis
Les aventures contant l'affrontement de Flash Gordon, Dale Arden et du docteur Hans Zarkov sur la planète Mongo avec L'Empereur Ming.

Fiche technique

 Créateur : Lou Scheimer d'après les personnages créés par Alex Raymond
 Producteur : Don Christensen
 Producteurs exécutifs : Lou Scheimer et Norm Prescott
 Supervision de l'écriture : Ted Pedersen
 Musique : Ray Ellis et Norm Prescott
 Directeur de la photographie : R.W. Pope
 Montage : Earl Biddle et Jim Blodgett
 Direction artistique : Herb Hazelton
 Sociétés de production : Filmation et King Features Syndicate
 Société de distribution : National Broadcasting Company
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Langue : Anglais Mono
 Durée : 25 puis 12 minutes
 Ratio : Couleur -  - 1,33:1
 Format :

Distribution

Voix originales
 Robert Ridgely : Flash Gordon / Prince Barin
 Diane Pershing : Dale Arden
 Alan Oppenheimer :  / Ming
 Allan Melvin : Roi Vultan / Thun l'homme-lion
 Melendy Britt : Princesse Aura
 Linda Gary : Azura
 Lou Scheimer : Narrateur / Gremlin

Voix françaises
 Jean Roche : Flash Gordon
 Michèle Bardollet : Dale Arden
 Francis Lax : Thun l'homme-lion / Ming (téléfilm)
 Claude Bertrand : Ming
 Albert Augier : Barin

Épisodes

Première saison (1979-1980)

Chapitre 1 : Une planète en danger ()
Chapitre 2 : Les Monstres de Mongo ()
Chapitre 3 : Vultan, roi des hommes-oiseaux ()
Chapitre 4 : Pour sauver la Terre ()
Chapitre 5 : Chasse à l'homme ()
Chapitre 6 : Dans les profondeurs de l'océan ()
Chapitre 7 : Aventure sur Arboria ()
Chapitre 8 : Le Monde de glace ()
Chapitre 9 : Le Monstre du glacier ()
Chapitre 10 : Magie bleue ()
Chapitre 11 : Le Roi Flash ()
Chapitre 12 : Le Tournoi de la mort ()
Chapitre 13 : Naufragés sur Tropica ()
Chapitre 14 : L'Oiseau du désert ()
Chapitre 15 : La Révolte des puissants ()
Chapitre 16 : La Dernière Bataille de Ming ()

Deuxième saison (1982)

Gremlin le dragon ()
Mariage princier ()
Sir Gremlin ()
Double mortel ()
Le Jeu ()
La Graine ()
La Sorcière ()
La Micro-menace ()
Flashback ()
Le Guerrier ()
Le Ballon de la liberté ()
Le Sacrifice du volcan ()
Attention aux cadeaux ()
L'Ordinateur de Ming ()
La Stratégie de la survie ()
L'Heure de gloire de Gremlin ()

DVD

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Intégrale de la série en coffret 4 DVD chez BCI Eclipse le  en audio anglais uniquement sans sous-titres avec de nombreux bonus (Documentaire 20 minutes sur la création de la série ; Commentaires audio ; Galerie photos ; profils des personnages : meilleurs moments de la série ; Quiz ; Cartes postales collector ; DVDROM ; épisode bonus Les défenseurs de la Terre) .

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Intégrale de la série en coffret 3 DVD chez Divisa Red, S.A.U. le  en audio anglais et espagnol sans sous-titres et sans bonus.

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Intégrale de la série en coffret 3 DVD chez Delta le  en audio anglais uniquement sans sous-titres et sans bonus.

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Intégrale de la série en coffret 2 DVD chez New Ksm le  en audio allemand uniquement sans sous-titres et sans bonus.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Série télévisée créée en 1979
Série télévisée disparue en 1982
Série télévisée américaine des années 1970
Série télévisée américaine des années 1980
Série d'animation de NBC
Série d'animation américaine
Série télévisée américaine de science-fiction
Série télévisée en anglais
Série télévisée se déroulant dans le futur
Adaptation des comics à la télévision
Série télévisée pour la jeunesse

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/*jshint node: true*/
/*global describe, it, before, beforeEach, after, afterEach */
'use strict';

require('./../test-utils.js');

var
    request = require('superagent'),
    chai = require('chai'),
    expect = chai.expect,
    should = chai.should,
    // parallel = require('mocha.parallel'),
    // parallel = describe,
    parallel = (process.env.RUNNING_UNDER_ISTANBUL) ? describe : require('mocha.parallel'),
    appUrl = require('./../../../server/config/app-url.js'),
    testLog = require('./../my-test-log.js'),

    app3Data,
    initApp3Data = require('./../init-app3.js');

before(function() {
    return initApp3Data()
    .then(function(res) {
        app3Data = res;
        return undefined;
    });
});

parallel('app3-api', function() {

    //==========================================================
    //  unauth user
    //==========================================================
    it('unauth user should not get ws ticket', function(done) {
        request
        .agent() // to make authenticated requests
        .get(appUrl + '/app3/api/get-ws-ticket')
        .end(function(err, res) {
            expect(err).to.not.equal(null);
            expect(res.status).to.equal(401);
            expect(res.body.error).to.equal('Unauthorized');
            done();
        });
    });

    //==========================================================
    //  auth user
    //==========================================================
    it('auth user should get ws ticket', function(done) {
        request
        .agent() // to make authenticated requests
        .get(appUrl + '/app3/api/get-ws-ticket')
        .set('Cookie', app3Data.users.userACookies) // authorize user a
        .end(function(err, res) {
            expect(err).to.equal(null);
            expect(res.status).to.equal(200);
            expect(res.body.ticket).to.not.equal(undefined);
            done();
        });
    });

});

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Hackers Hijack Tesla's cloud storage on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) and used it for mine cryptocurrency – an attack known as 'crypto-jacking'.
An Indian security research firm, RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI), detected and reported about the incidence for the first. According to researchers, a group of unidentified hackers infiltrated into the Tesla's open-source system for automating deployment: Kubernetes, scaling and management of applications, that was not protected by a password.
In a blog post RedLock said that the attackers didn't use public 'mining pool' but "they installed mining pool software and configured the malicious script to connect to an "unlisted" or semi-public endpoint. This makes it difficult for the standard IP/ domain based threat intelligence feeds to detect the malicious activity."
The attackers hid the true IP address of the mining pool server shrewdly and demanded a new IP address to make it undetectable.
Tesla spokesperson said, " there is no indication the breach impacted customer privacy or compromised the security of its vehicles."


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|organizador         = Federación Colombiana de Fútbol
|presidente          =  Ramón Jesurún
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|país                =
|continente          =  Sudamérica

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La Liga Colombiana de Fútbol Sala, también conocida como Liga Nacional de Futsal (por motivos comerciales conocida como Liga BetPlay de Fútsal), es un torneo profesional de fútbol sala existente en Colombia que comenzó su actividad en el año 2011 y es organizado por la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF).

 Antecedentes
En 1997 el técnico y dirigente bogotano; licenciado Diego Morales, exentrenador de microfútbol, se propuso crear en Colombia una liga profesional de fútbol sala, un deporte que con el aval de la FIFA comenzó a desarrollarse a comienzos de los 90.

En 2001, convenció a los dirigentes de la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol para que estudiaran el tema y en 2003, con el apoyo de Álvaro González Alzate, presidente de la Difútbol, y Eduardo Méndez, entonces presidente del Independiente Santa Fe, crearon la "Comisión Nacional de Fútbol Sala", que se encargó de organizar las ligas departamentales y de preparar las selecciones nacionales que participarían en los diferentes torneos del ciclo olímpico, siendo la Copa América de Futsal 2003, celebrada en Paraguay, el primer certamen para una selección nacional de esta disciplina.

Hasta que en el año 2011 apareció la empresa privada Go Sports, liderada por Mauricio Correa, que consiguió un importante patrocinio y sentó las bases para la liga.

 Historia
Contaba en sus inicios con el patrocinio de Cementos Argos, por lo que era denominada como Liga Argos Futsal, y la participación de 12 equipos de 11 ciudades del país y el campeón o campeones, ya que se disputan dos torneos por temporada, representan a Colombia en la Copa Libertadores de Futsal, Zona Norte; torneo organizado por la Confederación Suramericana de Fútbol (Conmebol), por lo cual todos los aspectos técnicos y deportivos son regulados por el reglamento FIFA. La proyección de la Liga está contemplada a cuatro años durante los cuales se espera llegar a tener un total de 16 equipos de las ciudades más importantes de Colombia.

A partir del año 2016, debido a la desaparición de los torneos de zona para unificar todos los países de Conmebol en un solo torneo sudamericano de futsal, los campeones de los dos torneos del año anterior se enfrentaban en partidos de ida y vuelta, en el marco de un torneo llamado Superliga Argos Fútsal; el ganador de esta Superliga representaba a Colombia en la Copa Libertadores de Futsal de ese año. Si un equipo quedaba campeón en los dos torneos del año, se le proclamaba de manera automática campeón de la Superliga.

En el 2018, la liga se convirtió en la Primera Categoría del futsal profesional colombiano; los 4 equipos que terminaran últimos en la reclasificación general del año, sumando el puntaje obtenido en los dos torneos en fase regular, descendían a Segunda Categoría o Torneo Nacional de Futsal, torneo eliminado en 2019 debido a una serie de reformas implantadas por la FCF, al retirarse Cementos Argos como patrocinador oficial de los torneos profesionales de fútbol sala.

 Sistema de juego
Se juegan dos torneos en el año, uno en cada semestre coronando en cada versión un campeón:

 I Fase (Fase de grupos): Se jugará por el sistema de todos contra todos, con la particularidad que en la Liga BetPlay Fútsal FCF I-2022 se disputarán los encuentros de ida y en la Fase I (Grupos) de Liga BetPlay Fútsal FCF II-2022 se jugarán los partidos de vuelta.
 II Fase (Octavos de final): A los octavos de final avanzarán los 4 primeros equipos de cada grupo. Los enfrentamientoss se darán en un ordenamiento de acuerdo a la tabla de reclasificación de la I Fase y se jugarán partidos de ida y vuelta.
 III Fase (Cuartos de final): A los cuartos de final avanzarán los 8 equipos ganadores de las llaves de octavos. Los partidos de igual manera se disputarán a ida y vuelta.
 IV Fase (Semifinal): A las semifinales avanzarán los 4 equipos ganadores de las llaves de cuartos. Los partidos de igual manera se disputarán a ida y vuelta.
 V Fase (Final): A gran final avanzarán los 2 equipos ganadores de las llaves de semifinales. Los partidos de igual manera se disputarán a ida y vuelta.

Para el año 2013 debido a la ampliación de los cupos y la destacada actuación de la Selección Colombia en el Mundial de Tailandia, se hizo más exigente el sistema acomodando los equipos en dos octagonales en una primera fase todos contra todos de ida y vuelta. Los dos primeros del grupo A y B jugarán semifinales de la siguiente manera: el primero del A contra el segundo del B y el primero del B contra el segundo del A, eliminando así la ronda de Segunda fase.

En el primer torneo del año 2014 regresa la ronda de Segunda fase al torneo para los 16 equipos, los cuales quedan divididos en Cuatro (4) grupos (A, B, C y D) clasificando los dos primeros de cada grupo a esta instancia. Para el segundo torneo de ese año quedan los dos grupos de 8 equipos nuevamente. Para la Temporada 2015, debido al aumento de equipos participantes, cada uno de los cuatro grupos queda conformado por 5 equipos. En el segundo semestre de 2015 queda conformada la liga con 18 equipos en tres (3) grupos de seis (6) cada uno. En la temporada 2017 se instituye la Segunda División de fútbol sala en Colombia, llamándose Torneo Nacional de Futsal, donde se decreta que, a partir de este año, los 4 últimos de la reclasificación general descenderán a esta categoría que inicia actividad el año siguiente. Para la temporada 2018, participan 20 equipos divididos en 2 grupos, donde clasifican a play-offs los 4 primeros de cada grupo.

Debido al término y no renovación del contrato de patrocinio de Cementos Argos con la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF) a finales de 2018, se hicieron reformas para el torneo del 2019; entre las más importantes, la desaparición de la Segunda División o Torneo Nacional de Fútsal, llevando a un aumento en el número de participantes en la otrora Primera División, ahora llamada Liga Nacional de Futsal FCF'', de 20 a 30 equipos divididos en 4 grupos, clasificando los cuatro primeros de cada grupo a octavos de final en llaves de ida y vuelta, clasificando el ganador de la serie a Cuartos de Final y así sucesivamente hasta llegar a la Final. Otro cambio importante fue la reducción de dos a un solo torneo en el año, ya que la FCF asumió directamente el patrocinio del torneo.

La edición 2020 se suspendió por la pandemia de COVID-19 en Colombia y la 2021 se aplazo hasta finales de noviembre; para está edición se redujo el número de participantes de 30 a 24, se retiraron 6 ya sea por problemas económicos, o por inscribirse en la Primera C para tener actividad en el fútbol 11, en esta edición los 24 equipos se dividirán en 6 grupos de 4 equipos, los primeros de cada grupos junto con los 2 mejores segundos van a jugar cuartos de final a partido único en la casa del mejor clasificado, en las semifinales se jugaran a partido único y en cancha neutral, también la final se jugará en cancha neutral a único partido.

En la edición 2022 el número de equipos aumentó de 24 a 32 equipos, en esta ocasión los equipos se dividieron en 4 grupos de 8 equipos, los 4 primeros clasifican a 8° de final, a partir de 8° de final hasta la final los partidos se jugarán en ida y vuelta.

Equipos participantes 2021

Para la temporada 2021, 24 equipos participan en el torneo.

Historial de campeones

Palmarés

Títulos por equipo

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Detalles en la Web oficial de la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol

Liga Colombiana de Fútbol Sala


Hannah Austin, a Luray-Page County resident, describes Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) as the "perfect solution" for her. She would even like to return to LFCC one day as a professor.
Hannah graduated from LFCC in May with an associate degree in general studies. She took all but one of her classes at LFCC's Luray-Page County Center, and she plans to pursue a bachelor's degree in early childhood education from James Madison University; she also hopes to eventually complete a master's degree.
Hannah was home schooled, and in her senior year of high school, she took an LFCC art history class at Page County High School. When she finished the class, she was still unsure about where she wanted to attend college, but she heard about the opening of the Center and decided it was an ideal situation for her.
Hannah worked at the Luray-Page County Center as a student assistant. Her primary responsibilities were to answer student questions, handle receptionist duties and perform other various office duties. In addition, she worked at the Page News and Courier, beginning as an intern in February 2006. After her internship, she was given a position as a contributor, taking pictures of community events every other weekend and writing occasional stories. Hannah feels strongly that community colleges are a good choice for anyone contemplating college.
In her spare time, Hannah enjoys reading, writing, visiting with her 10 siblings and spending time with friends. She is proud of the fact that she has made it this far.


Drone videographers Duncan Sinfield and Matthew Roberts each uploaded new videos to their YouTube channels over the past day, covering the latest views of Apple Park from the sky. The videos come a few hours ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which is happening about 8 miles to the east of Apple Park at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose.
Roberts also catches a few workers cleaning the window shades in the central courtyard of the spaceship building, pointing out that he has seen "notable changes" in the "amount of detail paid to keeping the spaceship clean" and in the expansion of greenery around the campus. Otherwise, Roberts catches nice glimpses into Apple Park's main atrium, the employees' outdoor activity area with basketball courts, and the stairs that lead down into the underground portion of the Steve Jobs Theater.
In the summer of 2017, multiple reports emerged about Apple Park security's first efforts at stopping drone pilots from accessing the airspace above the campus. Despite those attempts, drone update videos kept being uploaded to YouTube by multiple videographers, mainly including Sinfield and Roberts. Apple's renewed anti-drone efforts in the spring of 2018 appear to have been a bit more strict, however, and followed a leaked memo from the company that warned employees against leaking details about future devices to the media.


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Bombshell study explodes myth that same-sex parenting makes 'no difference'
Same-Sex Parenting Research: A Critical Assessment by Walter R. Schumm, London: Wilberforce, 2018.
Social science has gained higher profile than usual in recent years as it has been called on to testify in courts of law and in the court of public opinion about same-sex parenting. Do the children of same-sex parents do any better or worse than children of opposite-sex parents? That is what lawmakers and judges have eagerly wanted to know.
The response from social scientists, with notable exceptions, has been unequivocal: there is 'no difference'. This, they say, is the 'scientific consensus', from which it would be irrational, 'delusional' even, to demur.
They claim that children raised by same-sex parents do not show any differences at all compared to those raised by male-female parents – not in sexual orientation, sexual behaviour, gender identity, personal values, drug use or mental health.
Neither are same-sex unions said to be any less stable than male-female unions. As one 2006 paper put it: 'Not a single study has found anything unstable about the families created by lesbian and gay parents.'
Walter Schumm is a social scientist who begs to differ. Reviewing hundreds of studies in his important new book Same-Sex Parenting Research: A Critical Assessment, the American professor of some 30 years finds plenty of evidence for differences of various kinds, and in the work of 'liberal' scholars not just 'conservative' ones.
Reviewing virtually all extant research in the area, he finds studies which show, for instance, that same-sex parents tend to take more progressive attitudes in areas like gender norms and sexual behaviour, as well as adopt an overall more permissive approach to parenting (p 100).
These differences as well as the parents' own example are shown to have a marked impact on their children, making them, for example, less distinctively gendered than the children of male-female couples – sons more feminine, daughters more masculine. This is especially so in the case of lesbian parents (p 155). To illustrate permissive attitudes: in one 2011 study the children of lesbian mothers were found to be almost three times as likely to have used illegal drugs (p 172).
Schumm's method is nothing complicated, just more thorough and comprehensive than those he is criticising. As Dr Paul Sullins observes in his review of Schumm's book: 'In response to an influential, politically correct review of the literature that concluded there were no differences for same-sex-parented children in gender-role behaviour (the tendency for boys to do masculine things, or for girls to do feminine things), Schumm notes that the author cited only thirteen papers; he then proceeds to cite nine more on the topic, including three by the author of the review, that contradict the review's conclusion.'
Dr Schumm similarly finds a raft of evidence that the children of same-sex parents are much more likely than those of male-female parents to identify as non-heterosexual: 60 per cent compared to 4 per cent in one 1999 study (p 135). In a 2013 study 27 per cent of the adult children of LGBT couples identified as other than male or female (p 140). A 1997 study found 43 per cent of the children of lesbian mothers stating that they think their mother would prefer them to be gay or lesbian, compared to zero per cent of the children of heterosexual parents (p 127).
Schumm relates numerous studies which show, contrary to the purported consensus, that same-sex parent relationships are considerably less stable than male-female parent relationships (p 88). Notably, unlike male-female relationships which statistically become more stable where children are involved, same-sex relationships are found to become less stable (p 88). Lesbian parents in particular have the most unstable relationships, with a 2019 study finding over 62 per cent of the lesbian couples in the study having broken up before their eldest child reached 25.
Gay male parents on the other hand appear to have peculiarly stable relationships – but here we need to keep in mind that a large proportion of such stable gay relationships are open (that is, not sexually exclusive), and that this openness is often credited with aiding their stability (p 103). In addition, gay parents are typically of higher socio-economic status as they have been able to meet the added cost of acquiring children without a female in the relationship – a factor which aids stability.
It is in part the instability of lesbian parental relationships that makes studying them so difficult, as it can be very hard to find a random sample large enough to obtain statistically significant results. For example, a 2012 study by Mark Regnerus began with a population sample of nearly 3,000 people but within that found only three lesbian parent couples that had been stable since the birth of their adult child (p 72). Regnerus's work was sharply criticised for this, but it is a problem common to many studies in this area, and Schumm suspects that the real driver of the intense criticism of Regnerus was an animus towards his findings (p 273).
Relationship stability is an area of crucial interest because it is known to have a strong effect on children in areas such as educational attainment and mental health. If same-sex parents have more unstable relationships then they are likely, if only for that reason, to produce worse outcomes for children.
One way that liberal social scientists have avoided this conclusion is by arguing that the negative outcomes must be regarded as the result of the relationship instability, treated as an independent variable, and not the sexual orientation of the parents.
In statistical terms, they do this by controlling for relationship instability, thereby showing that for children in stable same-sex families the differences with stable male-female families almost disappear (with other controls then being applied to eliminate remaining differences).
Now on one level this is fine – controlling for independent factors is a perfectly standard and respectable form of statistical analysis.
It becomes misleading, however, when it is used to support a claim that same-sex parenting makes no difference to child outcomes. For clearly if same-sex parents have inherently or typically more unstable relationships then they will produce statistically worse outcomes for children. Those worse outcomes do not disappear merely because the relatively few stable same-sex families are spared some of them, since it remains the case that the majority of same-sex parental relationships are relatively unstable.
Schumm explains that really researchers ought to be doing more to treat relationship instability as a mediating factor through which same-sex parenting impacts on child outcomes (p 86). He laments that so few researchers appear interested in or willing to do this.
The misleading use of statistical controls (whether done intentionally or unintentionally) is just one of the ways in which liberal social scientists have airbrushed away the differences between same-sex and male-female parents.
Another, Schumm explains, is through an over-focus on 'statistical significance' – essentially a measure of how likely a study is not to have thrown up a false positive or negative (usually a reflection of the sample size). By prioritising statistical significance over effect sizes (a measure of how much difference some factor has made in the study) scholars have been able to write off large swathes of valuable findings which show a large effect size but have not passed the researcher's chosen threshold of significance. Often, Schumm notes, the effect size goes entirely unreported, no matter how large it is (p 292).
Yet the difficulty of obtaining large sample sizes in this area makes it a challenge for any study to pass such thresholds of significance. This makes it all too easy for scholars to dismiss inconvenient results which show clear differences but whose sample size puts them outside of an arbitrary significance threshold. This allows scholars to claim there is 'no evidence of difference', when really it is not evidence of absence they have found but absence of evidence, and then only because they have discounted the evidence that falls below an arbitrary threshold of significance.
A further factor is the universal tendency towards confirmation bias, which sees reviewers cherry-picking studies which fit their preferred narrative and showing a lack of curiosity to search out more which don't. Taken together such considerations go a long way to explain how liberal social scientists (who make up the large majority) have managed to present a 'consensus' to the public when a considerable number of studies would tell otherwise.
Also deserving of mention is the much greater difficulty experienced by scholars who attempt to publish results which don't conform to the approved narrative, and the disgraceful pressure placed on publishers and universities to retract heterodox articles and remove their authors from post. Schumm devotes an appendix (Appendix C) to recounting some of this appalling and anti-scientific behaviour, which he is concerned severely undermines the credibility of the discipline, changing it from science to activism.
A few other choice facts from Schumm's book, which help to fill out our picture of same-sex parenting. Lesbians form the large majority of same-sex parents – a point largely explained by biology, it being much easier for women to bring children into the relationship. Biology also likely explains why only a small proportion of same-sex relationships have children – 8 per cent according to one 2017 study, 7 per cent lesbian, 1 per cent gay men (p 78) – though personal preferences and values may also play a role.
The majority of the children in same-sex families were originally born into a male-female family that subsequently broke down, the children remaining with one parent – 70 per cent according to one 2015 study (p87). This was especially true for lesbian families, and partly as a result lesbian parents tend to be of a lower income bracket than heterosexual parents (p 71). Gay male parents on the other hand, as noted earlier, tend to be of much higher income bracket owing to the additional costs gay men have to be able to meet in obtaining children. The difficulty of obtaining children also tends to make same-sex families smaller.
Same-sex parents also show an interesting gender bias towards children of their own sex, with one 2017 population study in the Netherlands finding around three quarters of the children of same-sex parents to be of the same gender as those parents (p 153).
All of this adds up to a picture of numerous differences between same-sex and male-female families. The ongoing attempts among social scientists to deny these differences and assert a consensus on 'no difference' constitutes nothing short of a crisis in social science, and in an area where scholars are currently widely involved in informing public policy.
Schumm relates how between the 1980s and 2000s social scientists could frequently be found proclaiming that the number of children being raised in same-sex families in the US was upwards of 14 million. This figure became standard in academic papers and official documents and was cited in support of numerous policy and judicial decisions. Yet in the last decade or so it has become increasingly clear that the true figure is closer to 200,000 – more than 25 times smaller. Schumm digs down into the origins of this spurious figure and its rise to prominence and finds a sorry tale of exaggerated, unsubstantiated claims gaining traction because they suited the favoured narrative of elites and academics (p 73).
Schumm implores his fellow scholars to learn the lessons of this embarrassing error and take much more seriously the biases that can skew their output. He calls for a return to more rigorous and objective social science that seeks truth rather than consensus and the professional ostracism of those who dare to disagree. Past experience suggests such a call may fall on deaf ears, but perhaps this time some people really will listen.
First published on Rebel Priest.
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Abortion is a human right! What about the unborn baby's right to life, Sadiq Khan?
Equality and Human Rights Commission threatens parents protesting LGBT promotion in schools
3 thoughts on "Bombshell study explodes myth that same-sex parenting makes 'no difference'"
achilles1974 says:
The comments I posted below were submitted to the Times of London, in response to Birmingham parents protesting teaching LGBTQ sexual mores in their schools. The Times of London did not publish my comments.
I honestly do not believe I have ever read a more Orwellian headline than this, "Birmingham sex lesson protests are 'a threat to society'."
George Orwell saw quite a bit of the future, but he did not foresee children being indoctrinated by government with lies to groom them with sexual mores antithetical to their parent's superior beliefs. Nor did he foresee parents who naturally look out for the well-being of their children, being berated and threatened by their government for simply fulfilling their God-given responsibilities to protect their children's sexuality.
The big lie, the elephant in the room used to groom children is that same-sex parenting is equal to heterosexual parenting, and the well being of children nurtured by same-sex parents is also equal. It is simply not true.
Homosexual relationships are much less stable than heterosexual relationships and parental instability has an undeniable detrimental effect on children. Lesbian relationships are particularly unstable with a 2019 study finding over 62 percent of lesbian couples breaking up before their children turn 25. See Same-Sex Parenting Research: A Critical Assessment by Walter R. Schumm.
Children raised by same-sex parents have higher rates of drug abuse and they are more likely to identify as other than heterosexual.
Parents have the right and responsibility to vigorously protest against this inuring government overreach into the lives of their children.
A review Schumm's book which can be found here.
Walter Schumm says:
I should note that much research since the book came out has reaffirmed the conclusions of the book.


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The 'post' page is no longer rendered. Could anyone please explain why? Also, I only just recently began learning javascript.

A: I think the possible reason behind this is that in the code:
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You are converting both "req.params.postName"  and "post.title" to lowe case and the you are checking if they are equal or not but in the code:
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Impeachment is Rapidly Growing on Voters as House Surges Forward with Inquiry, Subpoenas Rudy Giuliani
By Ramsey Touchberry On 9/30/19 at 5:06 PM EDT
Politics Donald Trump Impeachment Congress Rudy Giuliani
The majority of American voters now support an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, while the country is split on whether Trump should actually be removed from office, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday.
The survey showed a 20-point swing from less than a week ago, showing that voters are split on whether they believe Trump "should be impeached and removed from office" at 47 to 47 percent. In a prior Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday, respondents rejected that idea by 57 to 37 percent. Monday's poll also found that voters support the House's formal impeachment inquiry by 52 to 45 percent.
The poll showed that when asked whether Trump should be impeached and removed from office, 90 percent of Democrats—a 17-point increase from last week—said yes, while 42 percent of Independents—an 8-point increase—and 7 percent of Republicans—a 3-point increase—agreed.
Trump's approval rating among his base remained high at 88 percent, but his overall approval rating was 41 percent and his disapproval was at 53 percent.
A protester holds a sign calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump during a demonstration on June 15 in New York City. Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty
The surge in support from American voters for House Democrats' impeachment proceedings came as Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was subpoenaed on Monday by the Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight Committees to hand over documents related to his involvement in Trump pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate a political opponent and their family: former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
"Our inquiry includes an investigation of credible allegations that you acted as an agent of the President in a scheme to advance his personal political interests by abusing the power of the Office of the President," the Democratic chairmen wrote in a letter to Giuliani that accompanied the subpoena.
The subpoena demands that Giuliani provide communications and records about his efforts to have Ukraine investigate Biden and his family for their involvement in a Ukrainian gas company. Giuliani said on CNN September 19 that he asked Ukraine to look into the Bidens. The Democratic chairmen also demanded documents related to allegations that Giuliani pushed for the foreign prosecution of Ukrainians who provided evidence against Trump's convicted former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
The requested information must be turned over by October 15. The subpoena does not require Giuliani to testify before Congress.
Giuliani was mentioned by Trump and Zelensky in their July phone call, where Trump said he'd like Giuliani to be involved with any potential investigation into Biden and stolen Democratic emails from the 2016 election, along with Attorney General William Barr.
"The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters," the chairmen wrote.
The three chairmen were Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) of the Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees, respectively.
The Quinnipiac poll was conducted from Friday through Sunday among 1,115 self-identified registered voters and has a plus or minus 3.6 percent margin of error.


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After suffering a tragic loss, Mack Phillips seeks answers from a mysterious letter urging him to visit a deserted shack in the Oregon wilderness.
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
Cast: Sam Worthington, Tim McGraw, Octavia Spencer, Radha Mitchell, Avraham Aviv Alush, Graham Greene, Alice Braga, Megan Charpentier, Gage Munroe
"The Shack" was produced by Summit Entertainment and Netter Productions with a budget of $20m. With it's initial release on March 3rd 2017 it made approximately $92.92m at the Box Office.
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Found in the Street: A Virago Modern Classic
Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack Sutherland, a wealthy aspiring artist, and it is his misfortune to have it returned to him - with all $263 and credit cards untouched. Because now Ralph knows where Jack lives. Elsie Tyler is a beautiful young waitress - an innocent in New York - and Ralph feels he must protect her from 'bad company'. When he sees Elsie leaving Jack's apartment, he is not pleased. Not pleased at all. By the author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Found in the Street is an unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire.
Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality.
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.
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'New-age' dads deserve a hiding for being such duds
Sorry men, occasionally 'babysitting' your children does not make you a hands-on parent
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Russell Brand is no stranger to controversy, but even he must have been surprised by the backlash to his parenting confessions at the weekend.
Casually admitting he has never looked after his children for a 24-hour period caused social media to burst a blood vessel, with accusations of sexism being among the more charitable criticisms he has received.
The 43-year-old comedian has two daughters – Mabel, 2, and Peggy, six months – with his "lifestyle blogger" wife Laura Gallacher, sister of TV presenter Kirsty.
But he's been far too busy, submerged in the land of the deep and spiritual, to get his hands dirty.
"I'm very focused on the mystical connotations of their beauty and grace," he said, "not so good on the nappies and making sure they eat food."
Yes, right-on Russ is too sensitive to do any real childcare. He's too busy marvelling at the cosmic wonder of his children to actually feed the poor mites.
He's your classic chauvinist with added crystals and lentils, an old-fashioned sexist in hippy-dippy clothing. Poor Laura basically has three children, not two.
Annie O'Leary, of parenting website Netmums, spoke for the nation when she told Brand: "Stop talking twaddle and get stuck in."
The sad fact is, though, that Brand's parody-defying, navel-gazing views aren't an anomaly. Instead, they reveal the truth about a certain sort of 21st-century father.
In this era of political correctness, far too many men give the impression of being hands-on when, in reality, they still leave the hard yards to their partners.
This breed of bloke prides himself on being a perfect co-parent, but it's preening and performative, without much substance.
They might put "proud father" or "devoted dad" in their social media profiles but dodge any practical parenting. They want credit for being "woke", while secretly expecting women to do the real graft.
Take my friend Rachel's husband, Peter, for example. They have three children, the oldest of whom is now a teenager, but, despite 15 years of fatherhood, Peter has somehow remained pathologically useless.
If Rachel's not home for even one mealtime, he takes them to a restaurant because he can't cook dinner himself unless his wife has left it laid out, ready to microwave, with foolproof instructions.
So far, so unreconstructed, except Peter invariably sells this as "spending quality time" with "my brilliant kids" and taking them out as "a treat".
He'll post Instagram pictures of their Nando's feast to prove what a terrific guy he is, when really he's just a man-child who can't work a kitchen appliance. (Peter is a successful IT consultant, incidentally, not the village idiot.)
It's a similar story with my friend Lisa who, during a recent catch-up over wine and cheese, spent the entire afternoon fielding calls from her husband, desperately inquiring what to do with their twin daughters.
Did they need hats? Were they allowed snacks?
She ended up leaving early in stressed-out tears, wine half-finished. Cheers, indeed.
It's even worse in the world of celebrity, where hands-off fathers can afford a fleet of nannies to cover for their inadequacies.
Musician Pharrell Williams might style himself as a supercool renaissance man, but he recently admitted he refused to change his triplets' nappies, while UK politician Jacob Rees-Mogg happily admits to having never handled a single one of his six children's nappies – though at least he doesn't pretend to be a paragon of PC virtue.
When it comes to modern parenting, cellphones account for much of the problem, serving as a buck-passing device or remote babysitter.
Doofus dads also seem to delight in spamming their partner endlessly with pictures of their child while in his care, the subtext being: stop enjoying yourself and come home, or look how much fun we're having without you!
Either way, I've lost count of the number of lunches I've had with female friends that have been ruined by their phones pinging constantly, the guilt-trip snaps and foolish questions refusing to cease.
Other classics of the genre include fathers who talk about "babysitting" their own children like they're filling in as a favour, as if this is an additional duty they should be rewarded for.
They are yet to realise, it would appear, that when they're your own, it's just parenting.
But these days, in the age of sharenting where we can all see – or be seen – to be performing the part of loving pa, an idealised image of fatherhood has emerged: one that involves nonchalant one-handed pram-pushing and ostentatious Frisbee-chucking in the park, all of which is then documented on social media, naturally.
These chaps flinch, however, when it comes to the less glamorous graft, which they deem "her department". It's a trope nailed perfectly by BBC Two parenting sitcom Motherland.
Harassed working mother Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) has a husband who's always at a sport event or stag do when she needs help.
He makes the right noises ("Hey, I hear you", "Look, babe, if you want me to come home ... ") but, ultimately, does sweet FA.
These, often, are the fathers who think hauling the kids to soft play for two hours on a Sunday morning so their wives can have a lie-in makes them some sort of progressive hero – even though she only needs the rest because she's been in sole charge of their children's care all week.
Last month, I witnessed a friend catch a whiff of a filled nappy while holding his four-month-old son, who he immediately handed back to his wife.
This isn't natural uncertainty around a newborn, rather a refusal to deal with the dirty parts of looking after his third child. No matter that he is a strapping, all-action personal trainer. When it comes to a soggy nappy, he's as squeamish as they come, handing over his smallest charge to his partner as if she is the unpaid help.
When these fathers do lower themselves to do some form of childcare, they're praised for being a "saint".
Witness the hero's welcome they get at the school gates – ridiculous, really, given the fact that the novelty of their appearance surely proves how little they're usually involved.
When American comedian Kevin Hart uploaded a video of himself changing his one-month-old's nappy with the caption "Daddy did that!" online, fans rushed to praise him, apparently failing to understand that fathers need not receive credit for things that mothers do without a second thought.
Right-on dads often play up their incompetence, too – "she's so much better at this stuff than me" – to get out of doing their bit.
Like Russell Brand's wife, Laura, women are better at it because they have no choice. Someone has to take responsibility and do the basics. To refuse is, plainly, idle.
Stereotypical gender roles stick in the throat, but the gap between appearance and reality makes things all the worse.
These men carefully project an image of perfect dadhood but, behind closed doors, are as nappy-phobic as their own fathers ever were.
Two of my friends are currently getting divorced over precisely this: the husband's pretence of hands-on parenting in public and utter haplessness in private.
Meanwhile, a new father I know raves enthusiastically about dad-and-baby yoga outings while his long-suffering girlfriend is tasked with handling all feeds because her other half "needs nine hours' sleep".
Often, it feels as though we haven't progressed at all.
The reality is that parenting isn't all Kodak moments but is full of the daily grind and boring bits.
Russell Brand's "I'm too sensitive to do any practical childcare" shtick is boring and outdated: that raising children is woman's work.
Until men do their share – not just nappy-changing but feeding, bathing, cooking, caring for children when they're sick, organising birthday parties and playdates – they'll never be proper co-parents.
Patting yourself on the back for doing 10% isn't enough, closer to 50% needs to be the target.
It boils down to this: are you prepared to grow up, almost overnight? Because that's ultimately what the job requires.
Russell Brand, it appears, clearly isn't. He should focus on the mystical connotations of that.
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Home » Secretariat for Political Affairs » DECO » Snapshots of Democracy Photo Contest » Rules
I. ABOUT THE CONTEST
1.1 "Snapshots of Democracy" is a photo contest (the Contest) sponsored by the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO) of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS) and the GS/OAS' AMA | Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), to celebrate the 50 years of electoral observation by the Organization of American States (OAS) in the Americas.
1.2 Grab your cameras and capture the spirit and strength of democracy. Let the images caught by your cameras' lenses convey the meaning of democracy and elections for you, for your community and for your country. The Contest is open to all photographers, amateurs, professional and anything in-between, except for GS/OAS staff members, GS/OAS consultants or elected officials of any body or organ of the Organization of American States (OAS) or OAS representatives, delegates or permanent observers, or their immediate family members. 1
II. SPONSORS
The sponsor of the "Snapshots of Democracy" photo contest is the GS/OAS, through DECO and through AMA.
III. ENTRY PERIOD
Submissions for the Contest will be accepted beginning on August 13, 2012 at 1:00 am Eastern Time, through September 13, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. For more information regarding time zones click here.
IV. WHO MAY PARTICIPATE
The Contest is open to all photographers, professional, amateur, and everything in between, in the following two categories: those who are or have been OAS Electoral observers; and the general public. All contestants will be required to sign an entry form (available online) to participate in the Contest. Photographers must be at least 18 years of age to participate in the Contest. Images submitted for the Contest (the Images) must be unpublished.
V. WHO MAY NOT PARTICIPATE
Staff members of GS/OAS, consultants or elected officials of any body or organ of the OAS, representatives or delegates of the OAS Member States and OAS Permanent Observers are not eligible. Also, relatives and family members of the individuals mentioned in this section are not eligible to compete.
VI. CATEGORIES
6.1 OBSERVERS: Open exclusively to those persons who have been observers of an OAS Electoral Observation Mission (OAS/EOM).
6.2 GENERAL PUBLIC: Open to the general public.
VII. HOW TO ENTER THE CONTEST
7.1 Each contestant will be able to submit as many as 2 unpublished Images by uploading them on the contest Web site. By submitting the Images, contestants represent that they are the sole owners of the Images and hold the intellectual property rights to them, and grant to GS/OAS unlimited, non-exclusive license to GS/OAS to use the Images on its Web sites and advertising materials, as well as to display them at the AMA. The OAS will provide credit to the photographer in case it uses the Images.
7.2 Images created via any form of photography will be accepted for consideration (film, digital, mobile phone, and alternative processes), but must be submitted electronically as indicated below.
7.3 To enter Images go to the contest Web site, complete the information required and upload the Images. You should submit JPEG Images saved with max quality compression with a long dimension of 1,000 pixels at 72 to 300 dpi with sRGB. Please do not submit Images larger than 2 Megabytes. All contestants must have high-resolution versions of the Images submitted.
7.4 THERE IS NO FEE FOR SUBMITTING IMAGES.
VIII. JUDGES:
A panel of experts, comprised of Dr. Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Acting Director of DECO; Patricia Esquenazi, OAS Press Director; Andres Navia, Head of the AMA; Claudia Palacios, Anchor of CCN en Español, Indira Williams Babic, senior Manager of Visual Resources at Newseum will be the Contest judges.
IX. JUDGING CRITERIA
Participating Images will be judged based on the criteria described below. The selection process consists of two rounds of evaluations. During the first round, the judges will select a group of "finalist" Images in each category based on creativity (34%), technical competence (33%) and effectiveness in expressing the Contest theme (33%). The Images selected in each category will go through a second round, where the judges will collectively select the winning Images based on the same criteria used to select the finalists. The judges' decisions are final.
X. ANNOUNCEMENT
Contestants who submitted the winning Images will be notified by email.
XI. AWARDS
10.1 Observer's category:
First Place: An economy-class roundtrip fare to Washington, DC, USA, for the Exhibit's opening day, including 2 nights of Travel Subsistence Allowance at the schedule of rates established at the time by GS/OAS. The photographer will be responsible for obtaining his/her own travel visa to attend the event.
Second place: US $200.
Third Place: US $100.
Special acknowledgements: For each category, the judges will select 3 Images that will be awarded special acknowledgment.
10.2 General Public:
First Place: The photographer of the image selected for first place will be invited to participate as an observer in an OAS/EOM, including arrangement and payment by GS/OAS of economy-class roundtrip airfare, lodging expenses and Travel Subsistence Allowance at the schedule of rates established at the time by GS/OAS during the OAS/EOM. Eligibility to participate in the EOM will be subject to the criteria set forth in the OAS Manual for Electoral Observation Missions. The photographer will be responsible for obtaining his/her own travel visa to attend the OAS/EOM; to this end, the OAS/GS will provide support documentation to obtain a visa to the Member State where the OAS/EOM will take place.
10.3 All the winning Images will be exhibited at the AMA during the first week of November, beginning with the Exhibit's opening day of November 1st, 2012. The GS/OAS will also publish the winning Images on its Web Site and will consider creating a 2013 calendar with those Images.
XI. GENERAL CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
11.1 Each one of the submitted Images must be an original work taken by the person submitting it and must not have been previously published. Images may have been taken at any time and must not contain obscene, sexually explicit or any other type of contents that may be considered inappropriate by GS/OAS.
11.2 By entering this Contest, photographers agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GS/OAS, its personnel, affiliates, officers, agents and representatives, from any and all third party liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the Contest (collectivelly Losses), including without limitation any third party claim for copyright infringement or a violation of an individual's right to privacy and/or publicity right. The Contest is void where prohibited by law.
11.3 Each contestant is responsible for ensuring that he/she has the right to submit the Images that he/she submits to the Contest pursuant to these rules.
11.4 GS/OAS reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.
11.5 GS/OAS is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest, by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to the Contest including, but not limited to, typographical errors or misprints, or by Web site users. GS/OAS assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any image submissions. GS/OAS is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines computer equipment, servers, providers, computer on-line systems, software, or failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site, including but not limited to injuries or damages to contestant's or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or uploading the Images or information for the Contest.
11.6 Nothing in these rules or relating to the Contest constitutes an express or implied waiver of the privileges and immunities of the OAS or GS/OAS, its personnel and assets, in accordance with the OAS Charter, relevant agreements and pursuant to general principles and practices of international law.
11.7 Any dispute or complaint that may arise from the Contest or the interpretation or application of these rules, and that cannot be settled by direct negotiations between GS/OAS and the contestant, shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association or of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission currently in effect. The place of arbitration shall be Washington, D.C., USA, and the sole arbitrator may decide the dispute as amiable compositeur or ex aequo et bono. The arbitrator's decision shall be final, binding and not subject to appeal. The law applicable to the arbitral proceedings and to these rules is the law of the District of Columbia, USA.
XII. CONSENT AGREEMENT
Submission of an entry to the Contest automatically constitutes the contestant's acceptance of all conditions set forth in these rules. By submitting Images for the Contest, contestant also grants to GS/OAS an unlimited, non-exclusive license to use the submitted Images by publishing it on the OAS Web Sites, publications, exhibitions and any advertisement related to this Contest. Entries that do not comply with the rules set forth herein will be disqualified.
1. Family members include spouses, sons and daughters, stepsons and stepdaughters, fathers, mothers, stepfathers and stepmothers, brothers and sisters, half brothers and half sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters, uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces, first cousins, father in-law and mother in-law, son- in-law and daughter in-law, or brother in-law and sister in-law. Participants must be at least 18 years old.
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The materials for constructing a rucksack or pack are almost limitless. You can use wood, bamboo, rope, plant fiber, clothing, plastic bags, tarps, animal skins, canvas, and many other materials to make a pack.
This pack is simple to make and use and relatively comfortable to carry over one shoulder.
Lay available square-shaped material, such as poncho, blanket, or canvas, flat on the ground.
Lay items on one edge of the material positioning the items so they will be easy to roll up into the material. Pad the hard items.
Roll the material (with the items tucked inside) toward the opposite edge.
Once it is rolled up, tie both ends securely. Add extra ties along the length of the bundle to keep it from unrolling.
Tie a connecting rope from end to end. make the rope long enough so you can drape it over your shoulder. You can drape the pack over one shoulder with a line connecting the two ends.
This pack is easy to construct if rope or cordage is available. Otherwise, you must first make cordage which might not be worth the effort. To make this pack, construct a square frame from bamboo, limbs, or sticks. Size will vary for each person and the amount of equipment carried.
Construct a square frame tying corners with lashing.
Attach vertical lines from the top horizontal pole to the bottom horizontal pole.
Attach horizontal lines that alternate and interweave between the vertical lines.
Lift top frame to uncollapse and expand the pack.


A clean and simple brown, leather bomber jacket. Sheep nappa leather is the perfect hide for this jacket with a soft and supple handle and a deep colour density. The styling follows the MA1 template of a blouson body, rib knit collar, cuffs and hem plus flapped waist pockets. Everything you need in a jacket and nothing more. The interior is fully lined in a plain poplin and carries two, leather trimmed pockets, one zipped and one open.


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And because we deal with nearly perfect weather most of the year, there usually isn't a need for fireplaces at bars — usually.
Though sometimes, it's nice to find some solace from the packed, loud bar scene.
Raised by Wolves: The La Jolla speakeasy may look like a liquor store from the outside, but a fireplace transports guests though a secret passageway and into a bar in the back. Another fireplace — that doesn't move, so don't try it — offers seating to enjoy the sleek speakeasy atmosphere.
Level 9 Rooftop Bar: Take in the views of the Gaslamp District for a picture-perfect night out atop Hotel Indigo. Relax with a cocktail or beer high atop the city near the bar's fire pit!
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Soda & Swine: Inside Soda & Swine's North Park stop sits a cozy fireplace at the back end of the eatery. Enjoy some delicious soda or a pint and some of Soda & Swine's housemade meatballs near a fire.